14 Oct
2010
14 Oct
'10
11:23 a.m.
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo
<mle+la(a)mega-nerd.com> wrote:
I've been using C++ for nearly 20 years (including
the last 8+
years professionally) and I am nowhere near mastering it. In
fact, when you add in commonly used things like STL and Boost,
I find the language is growing faster than I'm learning it.
Same here -- and it's not just that it grows, but that "common
practice" both varies amongst programmers and evolves over time. C++
is an awfully deep language.
Also, I'm increasingly unconvinced that it's wise for someone who
intends to end up writing idiomatic C++ to be too comfortable in C
first -- if you're going to learn C thoroughly, aim to come out the
other end as a C programmer -- but that's probably a point one could
argue either way on (including about whether an "idiomatic C++"
programmer is a good thing to be in the first place).
I have a suspicion that the language with the currently greatest
intersection of "widely used" and "satisfying to develop" may be C#,
but that perhaps isn't a very practical choice in this particular
field.
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:30 AM, James Morris <jwm.art.net(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If you want some fun you could try
http://processingjs.org - the
processing language implemented in javascript.
Not a bad idea. Javascript is a better language than its early uses
(for gross hacks in web pages) might have suggested.
Chris